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The segment is based on the 1970 short story of the same name by Richard Matheson; the same short story forms the basis of the 2009 film The Box. It poses the question of whether an ordinary person would be willing to cause a total stranger to die in exchange for $200,000 ($1 million in The Box ) by simply pushing a button.
But stay-at-home husbands (like episode host Jason Momoa) can still keep the house clean with such appliances as a dishwasher with a 70-pound steel door, a washing machine 6 feet in height, and a 240-horsepower riding lawnmower-like vacuum cleaner with a stain remover that looks and acts like a jackhammer. [276]
Anti-scratch coating is a type of protective coating or film applied to an object's surface for mitigation against scratches. Scratches are small surface-level cuts left on a surface following interaction with a sharper object. Anti-scratch coatings provide scratch resistances by containing tiny microscopic materials with scratch-resistant ...
The Golden Years of the Stainless Steel Rat: 1993 12 Published in Stainless Steel Visions by Harry Harrison (Tor 0-312-85245-2), a collection of 12 reprinted stories, one original. An original short story which finds Jim in Terminal Penitentiary, a prison where over-the-hill crooks are sent. The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues: 1994 3
Food in a refrigerator with its door open. A refrigerator, commonly shortened to fridge, is a commercial and home appliance consisting of a thermally insulated compartment and a heat pump (mechanical, electronic or chemical) that transfers heat from its inside to its external environment so that its inside is cooled to a temperature below the room temperature. [1]
"Button, Button" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. [1] The story first appeared in a January 1953 issue of Startling Stories and was reprinted in the 1975 collection Buy Jupiter and Other Stories. It is one of several stories by Asimov in which he deliberately set out to be funny.
Smeg refrigerators with a retro style, 2011. In 1997, Smeg introduced refrigerators styled similarly to 1950s models, in several colours, with model names prefixed "FAB", and bearing the distinctive SMEG logo. The FAB line remained in production, with technically modern appliances with 1950s appearance. [3]
Button, Button may refer to: Button, button, who's got the button?, a traditional children's game "Button, Button" (Asimov short story), a 1953 short story by Isaac Asimov "Button, Button" (Matheson short story), a short story by Richard Matheson "Button, Button" (The Twilight Zone), a 1986 episode of The Twilight Zone, based on the Matheson story